I know I said I’d write another post about Mapping Petersburg, but I’m still thinking about that, so in the mean time, another top ten. But this time it is not the works, but the writers themselves, and specifically their facial adornments, that interest me. Beards, as Elif Batuman has affirmed, are hugely important to […]
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Top ten beards in Russian literature
Posted by Sarah Young on April 20, 2011
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/04/20/top-ten-beards-in-russian-literature/
Russkii vestnik 1856
1856 saw the first volumes of Russkii vestnik appear, and as Russian culture began to emerge from the stagnation that characterized the final years of Nicholas I’s rule, the journal began with a strong set of contributors, many of whom then continued to appear in the journal for many years. Literary works include Ostrovsky’s play […]
Posted by Sarah Young on October 17, 2010
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/10/17/russkii-vestnik-1856/
Russkii vestnik 1857
The 1857 volumes feature poetry by the usual suspects, Maikov, Fet, Tiutchev, and A. K. Tolstoy, all of whom obviously formed an early and lasting attachment to the journal. Prose is represented in works by Pechersky, Petrichenko and Evgeniia Tur, as well as a number of stories by Shchedrin. Tur also contributes an essay on […]
Posted by Sarah Young on October 10, 2010
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/10/10/russkii-vestnik-1857/